Sentences with phrase «noble efforts»

The fact remains that despite Avie Bennett's noble efforts (and Jack McLelland's marketing savvy) M&S would simply not exist if it wasn't for the Bertellsmann connection.

Sadly, it's more than likely these may be the last of the NOAA's noble efforts to experiment with urban and rural resiliency strategies.

Could anything be more «evil» than trying to impede the noble efforts of those saving the planet?

Despite these noble efforts the Fiji Water company has continued to receive criticism and even accusations of «Greenwashing.»

Thank you, Wendy and thank you, Jonathan for all that you do in support of the noble efforts of teachers, school administrators, paraprofessionals, and all who promote the true goals of education as one of the most important institutions in a civil society.

They remained popular in medical and training applications for a few years, but outside of a few noble efforts, they never caught on in the larger educational community.

Why the film doesn't produce a stronger reaction as it stylishly and thoughtfully deals with life's giant mysteries may be more attributable to the script by Peter Morgan (The Queen, Frost / Nixon) than to Eastwood's noble efforts.

All of the lead actors turn in noble efforts, including Hunt, who looks too haggard to be playing late - thirties even if she's hardly older than that.

Despite some noble efforts to take Tony Hawk's back to its roots, Pro Skater 5 is ruined by glitches, sluggish movement and dull, lifeless levels.

It is, quite probably, a second Oppenheimer masterpiece, and was the greatest feature at Doc / Fest this year, despite the festival's noble efforts to make an impact highlighting problems elsewhere.

Each season, those at the pinnacle of the fashion pyramid trot out their hard work for the world to judge and we sit ready to critique the fruits of their noble efforts.

Despite the noble efforts of clinicians and researchers, our limited insight into the roots of psychiatric disease hinders the search for cures and contributes to the stigmatization of this enormous problem, the leading cause worldwide of years lost to death or disability.

To my colleagues in Albany whose good work and truly noble efforts are being ignored because of the concentration and fixation on evil and not good deeds in Albany: I take my hat off to you!

I am happy that we could identify additional funding to help the EMW, Holland and East Aurora Boys and Girls Clubs continue their noble efforts,» said Legislator Lorigo.

To support your noble efforts, we humbly present the following recipe for gluten - free protein powder muffins.

But of all of the noble efforts being displayed at these games, this is one worth rooting for.

Fishon — even our most noble efforts get bogged down in this useless paradigm — I don't claim to know how to fix it — nor does our gracious blog host so far as I can tell — I'm just making an observation.

Promoting compassion and the Golden Rule are certainly noble efforts.

Their noble efforts have prompted the aid of their quiz «Which USA World Team Member Are You?»

In a noble effort to get to know the customer better, many marketers have turned to creating buyer personas — archetypes that represent the customers they most commonly encounter.

A noble effort, and probably a positive contribution to life online — but at its worst, Laura Turner wrote for Religion News Service, «Instapray can be like the worst possible version of Pinterest,» another forum for auto - worship and self - congratulation.

Regardless of what the challenge is, we find our true dignity right in the midst of meeting that challenge, right in the midst of that noble effort in aligning our lives with the natural law.

As CEO and co-founder of Pittsburgh's 412 Food Rescue, Leah Lizarondo leads a noble effort to save totally fresh, healthy food that would otherwise be discarded in hopes of ending food waste and ensuring that the city's residents don't go hungry.

That's why badgering the shit out of my parents to buy Street Fighter 2 (1992 retail price for SNES: $ 74.99, that's $ 128 in 2016) was a noble effort.

In many respects, this is a noble effort: it's a good deal more transparency than Gordon Brown could ever manage in his Budgets.

He's undertaking the noble effort of running against Cuomo to save the state.

So even after the Challenger disaster, Feynman's savaging of the program, its long slide into lameness, and its embarrassing hogging of the spaceflight spotlight, why couldn't anyone stand up to the shuttle and admit it was a noble effort that just didn't work out?

In summary, I'll be keeping a close eye on the developments in the field of exoplanet studies, it truly is a noble effort driven by the search for extraterrestrial life, but I won't be celebrating quite yet, for the reasons I outlined in a Facebook comment on the Discovery News fan page yesterday:

But we can't ignore science as the information presents itself to us, and it's definitely in our best interest to study these issues and try to find new, better solutions — not to mention a noble effort to do so.

While it's a noble effort on Tecmo - Koei's part (this is, after all, their first foray into this genre), it just doesn't have that «oomph» that a killer action game hits you in the sensory cortex with.

In a Valley of Violence may not be West's best film (that honor would still go to The House of the Devil), but it is a noble effort into non-genre territory that is probably his most accessible film to date.

It's a noble effort — and one worth a look for the super serious film buffs, as outsize auteurist projects of this scale are, indeed, rare events — but something is amiss when I come away with more to chew on about what guided the filmmaker's technique than what drove the title subject.

99, a social sciences teacher at Hopkinton High School in Massachusetts, says the standards movement is a noble effort, but she is dubious about the execution of it.

The same spirit of opportunity led to one of American public education's noblest efforts: the inclusion of disabled youngsters in the mainstream of school life.

While it is a noble effort and I am a total believer in pre-k programs I also know that what goes on at home is far more important to child development than what goes on in any classroom at any age.

It's all part of a noble effort to make drivers fall in love with Chrysler's utilitarian creation once again, or at least give consumers compelling reasons to take a long, hard look at a stigmatized (unfairly so, as we've always maintained) segment of the people - hauler market.

This is certainly a noble effort but it might fall short.

Roy Blount Jr. makes a noble effort to place himself among them.

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Although some animals may make a noble effort to consume enough water, many animals, and most cats, don't.

«There are tons of rescues out there, making a noble effort to save and re-home dogs, but every day they struggle to get enough funding to stay open another day.

A noble effort, it has done well in the past few decades, with many triumphs.

This felt like a noble effort to not only acknowledge the technology, but also to include it in the fundamentals of the game.

It's a noble effort, but for those wanting VR today, it leaves us without a firm date for when Xbox One X will see VR.

Evil Days of Luckless John 2006 Classic adventure game fans often criticize the modern state of the adventure genre of becoming uninspired and tasteless, to the extent that even the noblest efforts to recreate the sheer beauty and humor of these classic adventure games have translated to bitter gaming experiences.

Never mind of course the Left uses the court system to destroy and not out of any high - minded, noble effort to safeguard mankind.

A noble effort, sir.

It was a noble effort, but it was a technological force job and at a time when nobody cared.

Dahlia Lithwick finds parallels to Guantanamo, «as a noble effort suddenly got mired down in tricky factual disputes, cultural and religious clashes, and the practical necessity of warehousing hundreds of human beings for an indefinite period of time.»